ditched the passion for innovation line and got a callback in four days

I used to have a canned paragraph about "passion for innovation" that I'd just swap company names into. Then I redid one for a team whose eng lead had tweeted about migrating their monolith to event-driven services, and I mentioned that exact detail instead of the fluff. Got a reply in four days, the first company that had ever moved that fast. Now my spreadsheet has a column for "specific thing I found" before I let myself write the letter, and I don't submit anything until that cell isn't blank. Feels slower, but the callback rate went from basically nothing to something real.